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This chapter examines the share of employment potentially affected by information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled offshoring of services in order to determine the potential effect of offshore outsourcing on labor markets in the U.S. and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The analysis uses a combination of trade and employment data and simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996 and 2003. This chapter identifies the association of evolution over time with the share of these potentially offshorable occupations...

This chapter examines the share of employment potentially affected by information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled offshoring of services in order to determine the potential effect of offshore outsourcing on labor markets in the U.S. and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The analysis uses a combination of trade and employment data and simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996 and 2003. This chapter identifies the association of evolution over time with the share of these potentially offshorable occupations in total employment and discusses a number of different measures of the extent to which services activities have become globalized.